Peter is President and CTO at Archimedia, a multiple CEDIA award winning integration company employing over 100 people and with seven offices across the Middle East. In demand as a speaker and lecturer in residential technology, in recent years he has led workshops, courses and inspirational seminars all over the world.

Cyber Security - Part 1: Properly Securing a Residential Network: methods and best practices

Today's rapidly-expanding Internet of Things environment could unintentionally pave the way for nefarious network intrusion or device hijacking. Join Peter Aylett with a hands-on approach to methods and best practices for securing the network and protecting it from threats. Before attending this class, students should have a working knowledge of Internet Protocol (IP) addressing and subnetting, basic router configuration and port forwarding, troubleshooting using basic CLI commands, IP device configuration, and WAN/LAN basic routing principles.

Cyber Security - Part 2: Properly Securing a Residential Network: methods and best practices

Continuation of Cyber Security. Attendance of part 1 is an essential prerequisite.

Sales Masterclass

Advanced Lighting Design for Home Cinema - Part 1

Lighting is a vital element of cinema room design, contributing to aesthetics, safety, image contrast, image colour uniformity, and creating a more social space. When most people think about engineering a home cinema, discussions revolve around speakers, screens, immersive audio codecs, and room EQ. Whilst all are critical, these elements seem relatively insignificant compared to engineering the actual room itself correctly. This course explores how to correctly design lighting in high performance AV spaces to maximise all of the above elements.

Advanced Lighting Design for Home Cinema - Part 2

Continuation of Advanced Lighting Design for Home Cinema. Attendance of part 1 is an essential prerequisite.

Science and Snake Oil: deconstructing the high performance audio signal path

What does 'accurate' mean? What defines 'great sound'? Why do different manufacturers all say that their system is 'the best'? Though audio should be defined by objective science, the nature of reproducing the recorded arts means that notions of quality are mostly subjective. This fun and interactive session will separate science from snake oil and from the perspective of the entire signal path from source codec to room acoustics, and define the elements that come together to produce really great audio.

Bass Management in Media and Cinema Rooms

Bass is one of the trickiest things to manage in any home cinema room. This course focuses on the fundamentals of room modes and subwoofer placement for optimal performance. Includes references to the CTA/CEDIA- CEB22 Audio Design recommended practice and explains The CEDIA Designer multiple subwoofer configuration options.